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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · Jul 8

I was finishing E. Jean Carroll's new book when I a firefly lit up next to me. Just as I was thinking, "How wonderful," Simon leaped up, grabbed it in his meaty paws and ate it. It's a cruel breed.

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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 1d

I've lived w/o a car for 23 years but I live in NYC. The upside to having a car out West is that every single drive in every single direction offers glorious landscapes and light. Make some road trip music.

blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 1d

Unemployable. Unfit. Unqualified.

blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 2d

Thomas Friedman spouting nonsense he'll prob share at another @aspenideas.bsky.social. A Nobel? For a 34X convicted felon (including rape!) white supremacist grifter who pads pockets while illegally using troops to invade our cities. Do you even believe this yourself? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Opinion | Give Trump the Nobel for Gaza, if He Does the Harder Parts to Come

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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone needs to read @bethmacy.bsky.social's new book. WaPo says, "There couldn’t be a timelier book than Beth Macy’s searching and deeply reported 'Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America.'” www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

Review | To understand our divided America, she started with her hometown

In “Paper Girl,” Beth Macy describes returning to Urbana, Ohio, once a key stop on the Underground Railroad, now a place where Confederate flags abound.

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Lucy @lucysoaps.bsky.social · 5d

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Screenshot of social media post from PBS
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Same, Dolly, same.
Photo of Dolly Parton post:
Dolly Parton @DollyParton
“I ain't dead yet!”

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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 4d

Keep your staffer safe! She'll be released quickly. Have a legal team at the ready. I'll be happy for my tax dollars to pay for a good settlement for her.

blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 4d

Well, that's how the French would do it.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 4d

Nooooooooooo,

blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 4d

We are being accurate. I feel no need to argue this.

blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 5d

Well, he WAS convicted of raping E. Jean Carroll. But you're right that more will be coming. #TrumpEpsteinFiles

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Dr Keighley Perkins @perkinskeighley.bsky.social · 5d

For the first time in history, Cymraeg (the Welsh language) will echo through Shakespeare's Globe — in a groundbreaking bilingual production of Romeo a Juliet by Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru.

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#langsky #linguistics #Cymraeg #Welsh #Welshlanguage #Shakespeare

‘The language adds a whole new level’: Welsh-English version of Romeo and Juliet heads for the Globe

Bilingual production by Theatr Cymru is expected to be first time Welsh will be heard at South Bank venue

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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 5d

Also disqualifying? 34 felonies, including rape.

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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 5d

Actor friends: apparently @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy hires actors to play - checks notes - "former Antifa member" and "ex gang member." @actorsequity.bsky.social

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blueridgegurl.bsky.social @blueridgegurl.bsky.social · 5d

Terrifying images out of Portland.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5d

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.